Letter: Don’t take away assault survivors’ choice to report

There is a current piece of legislation (House Bill 254) going through the Utah House of Representatives that will decrease the power of survivors of sexual assault to have ownership over their own stories.One of the elements in HB254 is a section that states universities can choose (if the perpetrator is deemed an “articulable and significant threat”) to report sexual assaults to local police, even if the victims do not give consent for information to be given. Logically, it makes s